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The Old Stone Age

rock painting
 TheOld Stone Age is a broad prehistoric
period during which stone was widely
used to make implements with a sharp
edge ,a point,or percussion surface
 Theperiod lasted roughly 3.4 million years
,and ended between 6000 BCE and 2000
BCE with the advent of metal working.
 Stone Age artifacts include tools used by
humans and by their predecessor species
genus Homo ,as well as the earlier partly
contemporaneous genera
Australopthecus and paranthropus.
 Bone tools were used during this period as
well but are rarely preserve in the
archaeological record.
Stone tools
Rock Painting

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